Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
Microsoft does a great job in providing a single dashboard of Service Health in their Microsoft 365 Admin Center. There’s a new addition that makes it even better… You can now filter the issues to only show information that’s applicable to you in your role as a Microsoft 365 administrator. Here’s how that works…
When you’re looking at all the Channels in a Microsoft Teams workspace, you may struggle to figure out what they’re for, who the members are, and what’s been done of late. Now you can find all that out in the Channel Information Panel. Here’s how that works…
So if you’ve been working with SharePoint Online for any length of time, you are used to views that show list data, but they don’t normally have any visual indicators that make important data stand out (unless you’re willing to dive into JSON formatting). However, now there are a number of out-of-the-box, menu-driven ways to make your important data stand out. Here’s some examples…
If you use Hub sites in your SharePoint Online environment, you have probably at some point have wished you could get statistics that show numbers across all the sites attached to a particular Hub site. Now you can with the cumulative analytics in the Site Usage page for your Hub site. Here’s how it looks…
A couple of weeks ago, my coworker Sandra was using the Windows 10 calculator like usual. However, she decided to click the menu in the upper left corner, and was amazed at all the options she never knew about. I too was suitably amazed, and thought this would make a great tip… here’s just a sampling of what it can do…
If you’re like me, you tend to “bookmark” a lot of things to save for later. Of course, whether you actually get back to reading them is a different matter… The Saved For Later web part is a great way to flag content for later reading, and have it displayed back to you in an easy to read manner. Here’s how it works…
If you use a personal email client like Gmail, you’re probably used to seeing suggested wording appear as you’re typing away. Now Outlook on the Web has the same type-ahead suggestion feature! Here’s what it looks like…
Being able to find certain words in a document using CTRL-F is one of the most useful features in applications like Word. That same ability now makes its appearance in Microsoft Teams. Here’s how it works…
Versioning on list items and document library files works well, but versioning on pages has always lacked something in my opinion. The description of what changed wasn’t always helpful if you were trying to get back to a version of a page prior to changes. Now with the SharePoint page difference visualization feature in version history, it’s easy to see what version you need to restore. Here’s how it works…
